On 22/01/2021 12:51, Terry Coles wrote: > On Thursday, 21 January 2021 14:28:42 GMT Ralph Corderoy wrote: >> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19794695/flask-python-buttons/27952991#2 >> 7952991 is the same approach as the book. You may find the book better >> written than trying to piece it together from SO answers. :-) > Ralph, > > You are right of course about the dangers of piecing a solution together from > SO answers. It took me quite a while but I was able to get something working > using the preferred solution at that site. > > The trouble with Stack Overflow and other like sites is that they often > assume > that the reader already knows everything about the subject, except for the > problem under discussion. In this case a novice like me had to 'know' that > the 'request' method had to be explicitly imported from the flask module. I > had the same problem with 'form'. > > That solution was provided by Miguel Grinberg the author of the Tutorial that > you suggested that I use instead, so I was fairly comfortable that I would > get > something to work. > > On a related topic I bought Miguel's book from Amazon, but found that the > Kindle edition was not searchable which made it extremely hard to find things > without reading the book from cover to cover (416 pages, no index, no Table > of > Contents). Not good for a text book. > > Eventually I discovered that indexing worked in that book if I viewed it > using > the Kindle Reader in Firefox, but not when using the Kindle Reader in > Chromium. Also the book is not searchable on my Kindle device.
I'm glad you found a solution. Is it on gitlab? Might be useful for me to see it as well, seeing as I'll be using Flask soon for the visitor GUI. I didn't even know ebooks could be viewed in browsers, that's good! Perhaps filing a bug for Firefox would be a good idea? I'm sure other people are affected by this issue too. Hamish
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